Porn Valley- Cherry Poppins was supposed to come into Star World Modeling, www.starworldmodeling.com, Wednesday afternoon. Maybe she did. Maybe she didn't. Otherwise, I left before she got there. But had I talked to her, it would have been the cherry on an interesting sundae of porno malarkey.
I'm asking Rob Spallone if this is the same Cherry Poppins who arrived in the industry a few years ago on the tail of a story about how she had to sleep in dog shit at Reb's place. When Reb still had the modeling agency. Rob says he's not sure if that's her.
Instead, Rob plays me a phone message from Kira Croft [pictured]. Croft is livid, and in colorfully salty harangue is lecturing Spallone about porn economics. Judging by what she's saying in her mile a minute diatribe, Croft's leaving the distinct impression that she's the Alan Greenspan of the industry.
Spallone met Croft through Craig Valentine and evidently acquired Croft's ire last week when he commented publicly how Croft was holding him up for more loot to do a Hustler movie and that he wasn't going to play the pimp game adter they agreed on a figure. Croft in her message is saying how Hustler had her already booked for at least four other projects and some magazine work. Spallone who's going, yeah, right, is suggesting that Croft, despite her high opinion of herself, is the Ugly Betty of porn.
"I get along with 99% of the girls," says Spallone. "But this monster?"
Spallone's even more curious now as to why Croft left Gold Star Modeling.
And Spallone's curiosity is certainly tweaked as to why AVN's Paul Fishbein is ignoring the whole Mike Albo incident from the day previous when Albo started picking a fight with Luke Ford in the parking lot of The Lamplighter. Spallone later stepped in and took a glass of scotch out of Albo's hand and casually tossed it across a room, basically challenging Albo to a duel. Albo politely declined the offer.
Later Spallone called Fishbein and asked if Fishbein knew what happened, that it was already on the Internet. Fishbein said he hadn't and, when informed of the details, asked Spallone why he was going to lunch with Ford in the first place.
"Your employees are drinking and beating people up," Spallone told Fishbein. "And you're asking me why I took Luke to lunch?" Spallone was told he shouldn't be doing that, that Ford's bad news.
"He's more concerned with me taking Luke out to lunch?" Spallone repeats, evidently baffled.
With no particular relevance to the immediate story at hand, Spallone tells about the time that Russ Hampshire calls Gourmet wanting to speak to Spallone's father, Joe. It was about Rob. Spallone couldn't understand why Hampshire, if he had a beef, was going to his father as though Spallone were some little kid. Spallone calls Hampshire and sets up a meeting.
Spallone remembers going to VCA with Hampshire taking him on a tour and being cordial enough about it. But at the meeting's end, Hampshire wanted it made clear that Spallone was to stay away from Ford. After he returned from New York on business, Spallone said he found an interview Ford did with Hampshire in the mean time. Spallone gets Ford in his office and makes a comment that Hampshire is full of shit. No sooner does Ford leave, Spallone gets a phone call from Hampshire.
"I'm full of shit?" asks Hampshire not identifying himself.
"Who the fuck is this?" asks Spallone.
"Russ."
"Yeah, you're full of shit and I bet Luke is there," Spallone replies.
"Yes, he is," Hampshire admitted.
"Fuckin' Luke played him the tape of me saying Russ is full of shit," Spallone laughs.
No sooner is Spallone finished with the story that he gets a call from Ford. Ford tells Spallone he got an e-mail from a source and wanted to verify a couple of facts about something that happened between Rob and Linton. Supposedly Linton screwed Spallone on a deal involving the purchase of masters.
"That was a few years ago," Spallone says, noting that the deal was for $19,000 and that Spallone was to get paid in a couple of weeks. Except the deal dragged out and Spallone went to see Linton. Spallone emphasizes that he was being very friendly about this whole thing but was told that Linton had changed his mind after this whole thing kept going on for two months.
"I called him a Jew," Spallone tells Ford.
"Linton's going, you're calling me a Jew?" Spallone continues. "He then pushed me and I knocked him to the ground and choked him. Then he called my mother saying if I ever came back he was calling the cops." Spallone says he later returned to VIP.
"I get there- another Israeli's there," Spallone tells Ford. "Chaim's there. He says what's the problem? I said I want my money." According to Spallone, Chaim resolved the matter.
"That proved to me Chaim owns VIP," said Spallone who claims there was another time when Peter Kinsler and Linton allegedly had a $19,000 [seems to be a popular figure] deal with a Hollywood scriptwriter named "Killer" to shoot two movies for him.
"Instead of shooting two, they shot one and told Killer they went over budget. Killer never saw his money."
Spallone explains that Killer has written movies like All The Right Moves.
This, evidently wasn't one of them.
